0:37 Stephen’s updates
- Stephen is still involved in the Occupy Boston tech group
- Occupy has dropped Google for Mayfirst for email and server hosting – secure hosting for activists
- Stephen has been weeding out trolls and spammers from #OccupyBoston on IRC
- He is learning about GPG crypto and SSH – secure shell for network communications
3:40 Walton’s update
- Went down to Occupy Glasgow in George Square
- George Square has some activist history – in 1919 there was an insurrection that was put down when the British army sent in tanks
- Been testing out Tails – Paranoid Linux – easy to use, great security
10:55 Union busting in the UK and US
- Many union busting strategies are imported from the US
- Here is a useful TUC report on US union busters and their impact on British industrial relations
- A company of union busters reviewed Cyberunions – they don’t like the idea of swarm organising, which is encouraging
- Union busting is a growth industry online
- Jackson Lewis is a US union busting law firm
- This should be posted in all US workplaces
- The National Labor Relations Board process
- The recognition process in the UK
- Work is organised to make it difficult for workers to interact with each other
- Strong unions give you social democratic institutions without big government, democratise work and hold corporate power to account
- It’s worth checking out Parecon for ideas on alternative ways of organising work
32:18 Feedback
- We’ve had a request on the #cyberunions IRC for a Books section on the site. We will do our best when we have time
- MJRay wonders if there is a US conspiracy to dominate audio levels
- We are on occupytechnology.org – welcome occupiers.
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Here’s a great video of a former union buster describing how he stomped on the rights of working people: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qajBfEdzoE